Wishing students, teachers, staff great start to school year
During my years as a reporter, I have seen many first days of school.
Opinion
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Are Americans’ rights being stripped away?
Are citizens to understand that their constitutional rights to privacy by the government of the United States of America continue to usurp those rights?
Reader suggests plant-based ice cream
It’s funny how our government held a big press conference for National Ice Cream Day, with officials praising ice cream like it’s a health food.
MULLING Remember transitions part of life
A noon civic club meeting set me thinking about transitions.
Trump pushing for redraw of Missouri’s Congressional map
President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring Republicans to redraw Missouri’s eight congressional districts six years early in hopes of squeezing one more GOP seat out of the state in a desperate bid to help the party maintain it’s razor-thin congressional majority in the 2026 midterm elections. Missouri’s congressional map was last drawn in 2022 and consists of six safe Republican seats and two safe Democratic seats.
Reader believes Trump missed opportunity
Mr. Trump, you missed your chance to add an additional $100,000,000,000 in vital law enforcement to your Big Beautiful Bill.
Editor thankful for another trip around sun
On Sunday, July 13, I marked another trip around the sun.
Reader shares Graves’s vote for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ cancels his ‘Save America’s Rural Hospital Act’
On June 7, 2025, Congressman Sam Graves wrote to his constituents in his newsletter about his concern for our nation’s rural hospitals. He has reintroduced the Save America’s Rural Hospital Act. He says the bill would provide rural hospitals with additional reimbursement funding from Medicare that they haven’t been receiving.
Cuts to science funding jeopardize next generation of scientists
My research advisor Tara Allen helped me apply for summer research programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), where I got my first taste of scientific research by working full-time in a research lab. Last year, after 15 years of training as an undergraduate, PhD student, and post-doc, I started as an assistant professor at Northwestern University, where I run my own lab investigating how the insides of cells move, a process disrupted in many diseases, from neurodegeneration to cancer. I still get excited about making new discoveries. However, my favorite part of the job is working with young scientists who are equally enthusiastic about solving problems and advancing our understanding of the world around us.
Science returns to Dark Ages
Finding answers is the mission of science. Stripping science of its ability to find the answers to aid humanity and seek answers to the most universal questions is archaic and an archaic way of thinking.